Ruins

Rajith Savanadasa

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Hachette Australia
28 June 2016

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A country picking up the pieces, a family among the ruins...

In the restless streets, crowded waiting rooms and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.

Latha wants a home. Anoushka wants an iPod.

Mano hopes to win his wife back.

Lakshmi dreams of rescuing a lost boy.

And Niranjan needs big money so he can leave them all behind.

As the five leave Colombo to travel to an ancient city, the generations collide and long-held prejudices surface. With one foot in the old way of life and one firmly in the new, this family can never be what it once was.

By: Rajith Savanadasa
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 136mm, Width: 213mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 364g
ISBN: 9780733635052
ISBN 10: 0733635059
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rajith Savanadasa was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Melbourne. He turned to creative writing in the final year of an engineering degree, which he followed up with the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT University. He was shortlisted for the Asia-Europe Foundation short story prize in 2013, the Fish Publishing short story prize in 2013, received a Wheeler Centre Hotdesk Fellowship in 2014 and was part of the QWC/Hachette Manuscript Development Program in 2014. RUINS is his debut novel. Rajith is also the founder and primary contributor to Open City Stories, a website documenting the lives of a group of asylum seekers in Melbourne. @RajithSHS

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[Savanadasa's] writing recalls Christos Tsiolkas' recent work ... distinct and convincing, RUINS heralds the arrival of a gifted new talent in Australian fiction.' - Books+Publishing

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